working class

How Can We Rebuild Working-Class Politics? Let’s Go to “Strike School.”

Leave a Comment / Labor Movement, Strike, worker's rights / By max cyril

Throughout September and October, thousands of activists and unionists from seventy countries participated in the international ?“Strike School” organizing training led by Jane McAlevey and sponsored by the Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung. Jacobin?’s Eric Blanc spoke with McAlevey about the key lessons of the course, the reasons why this tradition has been marginalized within organized labor, and the ways …

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Trump makes his pitch to white working-class voters, but some who’ve felt his impact push back

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized, Vote / By max cyril

Donald Trump needs white working-class voters. Much of the Republican National Convention (RNC) was aimed at white working-class people who may not have voted in recent elections but are seen as gettable for Trump this November—if he can turn them out. But the white working class isn’t monolithic, either, and there are warning signs for Trump among the …

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How Workers Can Win the Class War Being Waged Upon Them

Leave a Comment / Capitalism, unemployment / By max cyril

Organized labor led no mass opposition to Trump’s presidency or the December 2017 tax cut or the failed U.S. preparation for and management of COVID-19. Nor do we yet see a labor-led national protest against the worst mass firing since the 1930s Great Depression. All of these events, but especially the unemployment, mark an employers’ …

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What Workers Have Already Won in the Face of Coronavirus

Leave a Comment / health care, Workers / By max cyril

The coronavirus pandemic has laid bare the stark reality of the United States: our inadequate, for-profit health care system, our precarious employment conditions, and the deep inequality that is foundational to our society. But it’s also shown us that when things get dire enough, the working class fights back. Over the last few weeks, in …

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Why Virginia’s Open Shop Referendum Should Matter to the Entire American Labor Movement in 2016

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / By max cyril

The most important election in Virginia this year has no candidates on the ballot. On February 2nd, the Republican-dominated General Assembly passed the two-session threshold needed to put the open shop before the Commonwealth’s voters in November. You might be asking yourself, “Wait. I thought that Virginia was already an open-shop state?” Your inclinations would be correct: legislation …

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What’s The Problem With “Free Trade”

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / By max cyril

Our country’s “free trade” agreements have followed a framework of trading away our democracy and middle-class prosperity in exchange for letting the biggest corporations dominate. There are those who say any increase in trade is good. But if you close a factory here and lay off the workers, open the factory “there” to make the …

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Reclaiming Our Working Class Family Values

Leave a Comment / labor, Uncategorized / By max cyril

As we move further into the twenty-first century, I have come to the realization that many of us have forgotten where we came from. I would wager many who are doctors, lawyers, elected officials and captains of industry came from humble means. Working class families, such as construction workers, maintenance people and factory workers, just …

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Will we ever get a real working class hero?

Leave a Comment / customers, job satisfaction / By max cyril

Is there anyone out there who hasn’t heard of Jet Blue flight attendant Steven Slater’s profanity filled tirade and exit down the emergency chute carrying beer? From the Asian animation of his battle with the passenger, 140,000 Facebook fans and T-Shirts, we finally have an authentic working class hero who symbolizes all the frustrations of …

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